One of the main reasons why we started Best
Electronics 34+ years ago, we saw a need for a company to supply Atari end users
and even Atari Dealers with much needed Atari replacement parts. Atari had
their Nation wide Atari run Service Centers and their Atari authorized
individual Dealer network all over the US who would service Atari products with
the stock replacement Atari parts the would bring into the US. But Atari
USA would not bring in certain Atari replacement parts to fix product
problems that it seems all Atari users knew about, but no other companies that
sold or supported Atari products wanted to tackle. So Best Electronics found it's niche
in the Atari world back then.

Best Electronics bought thousands and
thousands of pallets of Atari goods out of the local Sunnyvale Atari warehouses
over a 10 to 15 year period. In theory we could run our Atari company for
15 to 30+ years on what we bought from Atari, take the easy way and only sell on
E-Bay / Internet and never have to spend any more
money on any new Atari Inventory. But at Best, we strongly believe in
Atari Customer Service / Support and helping our Atari customers with there
Atari product problems. We are
always trying to do improvements on existing Atari products and bring in new
Atari goods and upgraded Atari replacement parts for Atari users when we can.
We have seen over the years in the Atari Business other Atari companies who only
tried to live off their Atari Inventory and never spend any money on new Atari Products and Inventory go the way of the Dinosaur. Over the last 34+ years in the Atari business,
Best Electronics has invested close to $85,000+ in Engineering Development costs,
New tooling costs including New plastic molds, Silk Screens, test fixtures and
new production processes (one time charge), to produce our Exclusive Best
New Atari products, replacement parts, Atari upgrade parts and Atari product
upgrades. For a large company that
amount of development costs is a drop in the bucket as far as developing new
products. For a small Atari company like Best, in a lot of cases it was a
leap of faith and a long time investment in the Atari market place to invest
that amount of company funds in new Atari replacement
parts. Most of the company funds we have invested in new Atari replacement
and Atari upgrade products have paid off (covered all of the up front
Development costs, tooling investments). But some new Atari part sales have
taken 8 to 12+ years before Best has
even broke even on a new Atari replacement part or upgrade, a long time
investment for us. A very few rare cases, we will never
even pay off, the development costs, new tool costs, shipping in costs on some
new Atari replacement parts we have produced. But for Best Electronics, the
fact we provided Atari world wide users an impossible to find new Atari
replacement part (even at a loss) that prevented that Atari user from scraping out the Atari
product is very important to us.

Here is a short list of just
some of the Custom made Atari replacement parts,
upgrade Atari Parts or Atari user installed upgrades Best Electronics has developed over the last 34 years in the Atari business
for its Atari customers. All of the Best Atari items on this page with a
click thru link to more information on that Best Atari product, are in stock. Best Atari items without a link to a page
on the Best Atari web site have sold out
and have passed into Atari History!

Bests Custom made Portfolio US / NTSC and PAL
Keyboard internal upgrade / replacement keyboard mylars, Atari never sold replacement Portfolio
Keyboard internal mylars. In stock, but not currently listed at the Best
Web site.

Bests Custom made
Portfolio LCD Mylar cable. Atari never sold this Portfolio part.

Bests Custom made Atari replacement
upgrade internal Keyboard Mylars for the Atari US / NTSC
MegaSTE and
TT Keyboards
(which have high failure rate on certain key functions)
and the same Best made different PAL version of the MegaSTE and TT Keyboards mylars.
Atari never sold any replacement MegaSTE / TT Keyboard internal mylars.

Bests Custom made 5200
All Gold parts
(Gold plated
Flex circuit, Gold
dot Auxiliary pad, Gold
dot numeric Keypad and 2nd Gen. Golddot tactical feed back fire buttons that takes a 100% failing 30+ old CX52 Joystick
design and turns it
into a lifetime Atari 5200 Gold Joystick. All new injection molds were made to
make the new custom Gold Dot CX52 silicon pads. A second new injection
mold was also made for the new 2nd Gen. tactical feed back CX52
Gold fire buttons

Late 2014 Best knew that we
would finally run out of the 2005 1st production run of the very very popular
Best designed CX40 Upgraded Gold PCB board,
that takes a stock Atari CX40 Joystick that would prematurely fail (for the last
30+ years) all of the time and turns it into an Atari CX40 Lifetime Gold Joystick which is extremely popular with
old Atari CX40 users. We went back to the PCB company who made the 1st
production run for us. They came back with a new price that was triple the
2005 original cost of the Gold PCB boards and plus a new tooling cost that was
2X the original 2005 tooling cost. We said we can not live with that
amount of cost increase. So started another 6 month search for a new
supplier of the Best CX40 Gold PCB board
that would meet our strict Atari Engineering requirements and at a cost
effective price for our Atari Customers. On March 10, 2015 Best received
it's 1st small shipment of the 2nd Generation Improved CX40 Gold PCB boards with a thicker PCB material and
now 5 fully Gold plated dome contacts.
For more information on the 2nd and 3rd Gen.
Best CX40 Gold PCB's click here

Bests New Upgraded Lynx II Speaker
Stock Atari Lynx II Speaker

April 04, 2015 Best Received
it latest Atari Upgraded / Custom made Atari Lynx II Internal Speaker
replacement part. Cures the known problems on the Atari Lynx II Hand Held
console internal speakers that slowly but surely lose their sound volume out.

June 19, 2015Best Electronics is now shipping the
second generation CX52 Joystick Gold Numeric pads with increased pressure to
push each keypad number and a much improved tactical feed back bounce back (more
tactical bounce back than the new 2nd Generation gold dot 2nd gen. fire buttons)
on each upgraded keypad number. For more information on the all
Gold dot lifetime Atari CX52 Joystick parts click
here.

December 21, 2015 Best
Electronics released it latest Lifetime Gold
Upgrade internal board set for the Atari CX24 Joysticks

March 16, 2016 Best Electronics released it
latest Atari upgraded replacement part for the Atari 1200XL Keyboard.
After 30+ year after they were 1st made, the Atari 1200XL Keyboard internal
Mylars now has almost a 100% Failure rate. Best sold out of the New Atari
1200XL Keyboards we got from the local Sunnyvale Atari parts warehouses about 5+
years ago. Using our 25+ year experience with making 8 to 9 different
upgraded Lifetime internal Atari Keyboard mylars, Best has now released one for
the Atari 1200XL Keyboard

April 20, 2016 Best
is releasing its latest exclusive Atari upgrade. It is a 2016 Upgraded / Improved
version of a bench mark / proven Atari 800XL 256K Ram Upgrade, 1st released in
1990

July 24, 2016 after a 19+
month search, Best is releasing its 2nd Generation S5
Super Pots for Atari CX30 Paddles.

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April 05, 2018

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